Wisconsin Innocent Project students and staff
with Rep. Gary Hebl (center)
Professor Keith Findley and clinical instructor Lindsey Cobbe, along with UW Law School students, visited the Wisconsin Capitol Wednesday to inform legislators about the work of the Wisconsin Innocence Project.
State Representatives Dale Kooyenga and Gary Hebl helped organize the event.
Together, the two representatives plan to introduce a bill that would increase the amount of compensation the state pays to the wrongfully convicted.
The Wisconsin Innocence Project
seeks to exonerate the innocent, educate students and reform the
criminal justice system by identifying and remedying the causes of
wrongful convictions.
Using DNA technology and other types of newly discovered evidence, staff and students have freed more
than 20 people since the project began in 1998.
Learn more about the event:
- Boost in wrongful conviction compensation sought, Wisconsin State Journal, April 8, 2015
- UW-Madison group fights at Capitol for the wrongly convicted, Daily Cardinal, April 8, 2015
Submitted by Law School News on April 10, 2015
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